"We believe His Excellency the Poison King has a point. Why should the Immortal Alliance be allowed to stop at nothing, while we can only fight a decisive battle against them on the open battlefield?"
"They rely on their magic power to launch sneak attacks and assassinations everywhere. Then we can destroy their spirit peak blessed lands and leave them without a place to call home, publish incomplete cultivation manuals, and counterfeit talisman coins, depriving them of the four essentials of cultivation..."
"We have far more methods at our disposal, and our plans reach much further. It is time the Outer Dao learned that we Puppet Masters are no longer what we once were!"
"Exactly. The Outer Dao habitually solves problems with violence, but its social organization and institutions are exceedingly weak. With the strength of our Dao, we can employ many methods to destroy their sect system!"
The Puppet Master Grand Artisan assessment was filled with all manner of unusual questions, covering every facet of people's livelihoods and a wide range of technical disciplines. This also meant that Puppet Master Grandmasters excelled in many fields, by no means limited to the arts of creation used to refine Mechanism Puppets.
They were not Puppeteers who knew only how to use Mechanism Puppets against their enemies.
Now, even setting aside Sun Divine Thunder and other products of the Solar Dao, they could act in the fields of civil enlightenment and economics, using large-scale printing and distribution to flood the market with a chaotic assortment of cultivation methods, abridged manuals, and incomplete texts. So long as these contained nine parts truth to one part falsehood, they could wreak tremendous damage on the normal circulation of secret manuals and the transmission of cultivation methods.
Counterfeiting talisman coins would deal an even greater blow